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ZACHARIAH G. WILSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GUMMED MONEY-STRIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,964, `dated February 6, 1883.

Application led September 5,1882. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ZAbHARrnn G. WILSON, of New York,in the county of New York, and in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gummed Money-Strips; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of` this specification.

This invention relates to an improved article of manufacture for the use of bankers, brokers, and others who have occasion to handle bank-notes, checks, securities, and other similar papers in large quantities; and it oonsists of a series of any number of strips of paper or other similar fabric bound together at one end between metallic or other rigid plates, and having their other ends suitably gummed for a short distance, the body of the` bound strips, on liue with the inner edges of the bindin g-plates, being grooved on opposite sides, so that one or more ofthe strips may be torn from the portion bound between the plates, the grooves in the body ateither side serving to weaken the strips at a proper point to form an initial guidefor separating the strips from the confined portions, the plates and the confinedl and compacted portions of the strips serving as a transverse guide, by means of which the unbound portions of the strips may be separated on adirect transverse line from the bound portions without inconvenience, so as to furnish as required one or more separate strips, ready to be secured around a package of papers, as more fully hereinafter set forth. These objects I attain by the means illustrated iu the accompanying drawing, in which is represented a perspective view of my improved article.

The letter A indicates a series of strips of paper or other suitablefabric, which are bound tightly together at one end by means of the short metallic plates B, secured together by a pin or otherfastening device passing through the said plates and through the compacted or bound portions of the strips between them. At each side of the body of the strips thus arranged and bound together, directly in line with the inner edges ofthe binding-plates, are formed, by any suitable means, the groovesV C, which weaken the individual strips composing the body at opposite edges, directly at the point where the initial separation should begin. The binding-plates, or the compacted body between the same, serve to guide theline of separation across the strips in such manner that they may be torn successively in a direct transverse line from the bound portions, as will be evident. The free ends of the strips are gum med for a short distance on either side, so that when the strips are torn off of the bound body they may be secured individually around packages of notes and other similar papers by passing them around the same, moistening the gummed end and attaching it to the other.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, a series of strips of paper or other similar fabric bound at one end between suitable binding-plates by means ofa suitable connectingdevice, the body of the article being grooved on opposite sides a alongtheir edges on line with the front edges ZAGHARIAH` WILSON.

Witnesses FELIX FOURNIER, H. AUBRY. 

